Various aspects of reading achievement and non-promotion policies as they affect Mexican Americans are investigated. (Author/JP)

Outlines 10 rules for reducing the student dropout rate. An important component is the establishment of a program that is well funded and staffed and has clearly defined goals that will help in the reduction of student dropouts. (MD)

Replicates and extends to older adolescents previous findings of factorial independence between IQ and daydreaming in both gifted and average children and young adolescents. Also aims to relate to the development of moral reasoning ability research findings of a decline in guilt and fear-of-failure daydreams among children, adolescents, and…

Patterns of academic attributions, developed by 225 hearing impaired college students to explain success or failure, closely resembled those of hearing students. The internal factors of ability and effort received the strongest attributional ratings for success, whereas the external and unstable factor or luck received the weakest rating.…

Those who decide to keep a child in an elementary grade for an additional year do so despite very persuasive research evidence that negative effects consistently outweigh positive outcomes. Retention suggests the student is solely responsible and is therefore a punishment rather than a solution. (MT)

Fear of success, fear of failure, and sex role orientation were examined in engineering undergraduates. Fear of success was found to be a sex-role-related construct whereas fear of failure was found to be a gender-related construct. (Author/ABB)

Examined self-efficacy in children (N=24) with conduct disorders. Subjects were given success or failure feedback for a series of problems, and task persistence was evaluated. Results indicated the success group had significantly higher self-efficacy following feedback. There was a positive correlation between task persistence and self-efficacy.…

In this article a learning disabled person tells about his most difficult, yet successful educational and social career as a nonreader. Both positive and negative aspects of the educational system are imbedded in this account of what it means to be a nonreader in our culture. (Author/CL)

Six insights gained during the implementation of a computerized staff accounting and recordkeeping system in the Newington (Connecticut) school district are presented. (ER)

Factors affecting the implementation of two health education models for inservice training of elementary school teacher are reported. (GW)

This mini-study evaluated efforts by the School of Health and Human Services Advisement Center at California State University, Los Angeles to reach and support students on probation or were disqualified. Workshops were held to educate students on campus policies and procedures, time and stress management skills, and factors that either contribute…

The training phases of a pre-business program to prepare a limited number of blacks to enter business is described in four stages: preparation, formal instruction, on the job training, and follow-up training. The program was not successful as a variety of problems arose from participants, budgets, and/or program planning. (AG)

Failure is built into our grading system as the necessary opposite of success with the additional justification that students need to understand individual differences. A better approach would be to help children build on positive strengths in anticipation of the tests of real life. Career education may provide alternative approaches for teachers.…

An assessment of the end of the student movement finds the factors of suppression, combined with some concessions to student demands, as likely contributions to its demise. (Author/KM)

Emphasizes that an informative talk, supplemented by colorful slides, can be very effective if properly used. (SB)